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Thinking about teams ....

  Today's walk was the first where a coat was necessary for a long time ... with a storm at my back I headed back along my familiar road and was reflecting on the common theme that featured with a number of those I had been coaching this week. Team performance and how to 'get' teams to function effectively was the key challenge facing people this week .... I don't know why but a return to 'office working' or implementing hybrid models of working is my suspicion.  When thinking about and discussion team working I frequently go back to my preferred definition of a team by Katzenbach and Smith (1993)  A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, set of performance goals, and approach for which they  hold themselves mutually accountable While one of many definitions of teams, this is my preferred - mainly because it reminds me of how seldom I have actually being part of or led a team or teams that fully meet th